Macho Medicine: A History of the Anabolic Steroid Epidemic

ISBN-10: 0899506135
ISBN-13: 9780899506135
Category: Social Science / General
Pages: 198
Language: English
Published: 1991
Publisher: McFarland
Author: William N. Taylor

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There may be over three million steroid users in the United States today--teenage athletes, TV wrestlers, police, many others--and most of them acquire the drug on the $4 billion a year black market. Perhaps the fastest growing segment of users is young women 13 to 18.
An expert here lays out the historical factors, the synthesis of testosterone, early clinical experimentation with steroids, the formulation of false dogma by the medical community, sports organization coverups, the limitations of testing for steroids, and addiction and treatment programs.

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